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cental

 
Dictionary: cen·tal   (sĕn'tl) pronunciation
n.
See hundredweight (sense 1).

[From Latin centum, hundred.]


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Measures and Units: cental
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mass (Metric) 100 kg (220.46~ lb).

US-C 100 lb (45.359~ kg) = (short) hundredweight.

BI 1859 (cH, centner, kintal, new hundredweight) 100 lb (45.359~ kg), usually for grains; British (long) hundredweight of 112 lb, called also quintal. Removed from official measures by Statutory Instrument 2484 of 1978,
[Connor R. D. The Weights and Measures of England (London: HMSO, 1987)] and by formal Act in 1985.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ounce apoth., peck, pennyweight, quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic yard, and the term ‘metric ton’. However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970. Besides the remaining BI units and the simple SI units, the Act included the kilometre, decimetre, centimetre and millimetre, the square metre, square decimetre, square centimetre and square millimetre, the hectare and decare along with the are, the cubic metre, cubic decimetre and cubic centimetre, the hectolitre decilitre, centilitre and millilitre, the tonne (or ‘metric tonne’), kilogram, hectogram, milligram and carat (metric). All had been included in the similar Act of 1963, but with some variation of name: -gram was -gramme, decare was dekare, the tonne appeared only as metric ton.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
  Synonyms: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, quintal


 
 

 

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